Do you ever do weekend training where you move into the harbour area, set out your sentries, send out patrols and nothing else happens? No enemy encountered, no dawn attack, nothing. Just establish more comfortable living conditions, improve defences, improvise phys etc., obviously not knowing whether something is going to happen. A weekend of harbour routine.

Not sexy, but more aligned with reality and an opportunity to trial and error improvements in admin in the field. As the saying goes, any fool can be uncomfortable and particularly so when you know that it's only until Sunday afternoon before you can jump into a hot bath.